Tools & Platforms

Issuu – free web-based publishing; upload PDFs for slick looking, colorful products
KidBlog – safe and simple blogging platform for students
Tumblr – blog platform more appropriate for high school students
Blogger – Google’s blogging platform; privacy settings can be adjusted
Wikispaces – a wiki platform you can use to have students publish for each other or write collaboratively
Wix.com - easy to use website creation tool that engages Flash
Weebly - an elegant web publishing platform

Websites

Teen Ink – a website and printed magazine with writing by teens for teens. This site accepts art, poems, stories, personal narratives, college admission essays, and reviews of favorite (and least favorite) movies, books, colleges, and websites for their monthly print and online magazine.
Figment – a site for teenagers who love to write and want to share their work and talk about creative writing with other young people
Frodo’s Notebookan online quarterly magazine that invites teen writers to submit personal nonfiction essays, fiction, poetry, and reviews.
Youth Voices – a National Writing Project supported site; We invite youth of all ages to voice their thoughts about their passions, to explain things they understand well, to wonder about things they have just begun to understand, and to share discussion posts with other young people using as many different genres and media as they can imagine!
Bookopolis – GoodReads for kids, where students can post and share book reviews
Launchpadprovides a creative and engaging atmosphere for young writers and artists to display their work.
Genius – interconnected websites that allow people to engage in social annotation of news, sports, literature, song lyrics, history and screenplays